IDEAS FOR CELEBRATING WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY

• Make history come alive with a special presentation or performance. 
• Make sure all your libraries both school and community have a copy of Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Suffrage Movement. *Now reduced 40% to $49.95 with an additional 40% savings for ordering over 4 copies.
• Sign the Women’s Equality Day petition to lobby for Women’s Equality Day, August 26th, to be elevated as a federal holiday.
• Join the Women’s History Alliance who will be working over the next 2 years to have Women’s Equality Day 2020 declared a federal holiday.

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY

These resources, compiled by the National Education Association, are intended to help students in grades K-12 learn about the suffrage movement in general and the 19th Amendment in particular.

• Women’s Equality Day infographic. Save and print this infographic or embed it on a website (Grades K-12).

• 100 Years Ago, the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade. Text, photos, and illustrations about the March 3, 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade (Grades K-12).

• NWHM Woman’s Suffrage Online Exhibit. An image gallery with 50 artifacts created by suffrage supporters to sell the women’s right to vote (Grades K-12).

• Scholastic’s Women’s Suffrage Teacher Activity Guide. A teaching unit about the quest by women to win the right to vote (Grades 1-8).

• Women Win the Vote, women’s history archive from Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. An overview of the suffrage movement, including brief biographies of 75 Suffragists (Grades 5-8).

• Education & Resources archive from National Women’s History Museum (NWHM). Features videos, activities, interactive lessons, and quizzes highlighting the contributions of women to the social, cultural, economic, and political life of the U.S. (Grades 6-12).

• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment: Teaching with Documents from the National Archives. Ten documents from 1868 to 1920, document analysis worksheets, teaching activities, and standards correlations (Grades 6-12).

• Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848 – 1921 from the Library of Congress. The collection comprises 167 books, pamphlets, images, and illustrations documenting the suffrage campaign (Grades 9-12).

• Women’s Suffrage: Manuscript Division from the Library of Congress. Includes papers of the movement’s early pioneers, the daughters of that first generation, the women who made the successful push to victory, and records of leading national suffrage organization (Grades 9-12).

• Women’s Suffrage archive from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Six historians examine aspects of women’s efforts to gain the right to vote (Grades 9-12).